[privacy] Fwd: [Dataloss] Norway: Internet hackers steal confidential data on 60 , 000

[Paul Ferguson]

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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:49:02 +0000 (UTC)
From: lyger <lyger at attrition.org>
To: dataloss at attrition.org



http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/internet-hackers-steal-confidential-data-o
n-60000-norwegians/20073511-spc.html

Internet hackers have stolen confidential data on 60,000 Norwegians, 
including the head of the agency for safeguarding them, the agency itself 
revealed Friday.

It said they had used a weakness on the website of the telephone operators 
Tele2 to procure the national personal identity numbers and addresses of 
subscribers, amounting to 1.3 percent of the country's population.

The information would enable the hackers to change the addresses of the 
people concerned so as to intercept their mail, or order goods on their 
account.

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